Parents Without Partners to sponsor holiday skating party
The Little Egypt Chapter in Carbondale will host a 7 p.m. skating party at Great Skate Train in Lakewood Shopping Center east of Carbondale on Wednesday. A Christmas party for adults is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday at Jack Woods home in Marion. Newcomers meeting is December 27 at Evelyn Wallace’s home. For details call 457-8250 or 684-4852.
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Marion
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Herrin Newcomers Club hosts February meeting in Carterville
Genevieve Rainey and Carterville based committees organize for seventh year of the social club with about 600 members. Meetings are at 2 30 p m on the second Sunday monthly at John A Logan College Library Carterville. A Herrin gathering follows at 7 30 p m Tuesday at Harrison House with finger foods and a $3 gift. info from Nancy Beachum 942 2548.
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C. Prentiss Smith
Rachel C. Klein
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State Society
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Herrin
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Nancy Beachum
Change remained rule in '70s fashions
In a look at 1970s style, young women rejected corsets and restrictive wear, embracing jeans and work clothes, colorfully fringed garments, and comfortable silhouettes. Seventh Avenue notes a shift toward unconstructed loose lines, then back to constructed waists and high heels as active sportswear grows.
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New York
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Christmas Flu and Family Holiday Misconceptions
A lightheartedfield Enterprises piece humorously ponders why children fall sick at Christmas while families debate beliefs about carolers, church dinners, and gift rituals. Neighbors compare habits, revealing varied holiday traditions and a running joke about medicine in stockings.
Homosexuality: Choice or illness in Dear Ann Landers
A reader and Ann Landers debate whether homosexuality is a choice or illness. A lesbian writer urges coming out as healthy and normal, while Ann counters that many homosexuals are unhappy and would choose to be straight. Ophthalmologist Dr Schepens explains iris color varies with light and pigment, not mood.
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Ann
W.ass
W.as
Charles L. Schepens
Oston
Unusual chocolate cake contains red beets
Recipe from Missouri cook requested by a North Carolina reader. Ingredients include flour sugar eggs oil beets and melted chocolate. Method beats eggs with sugar and oil then adds beets chocolate vanilla and dry ingredients before baking a 13 by 9 pan and finishing with confectioners sugar. Serves 16.
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Cecily Brownstone
Associated Press
Missouri
North Carolina
Farm Journal
Elise W. Manning
Doubleday
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